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PDF pending restorationWright, Grace S.; Gaumnitz, Walter H.; McDonald, Everett A., Jr. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
The most common problem and characteristic associated with secondary education in the small and rural communities is its limitations--low financial resources, inadequate plant and equipment, small enrollments, restricted curriculum offerings, and small and overworked staffs. The purpose of this report is to show that these limitations need not…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Community Relationship, Instructional Improvement, Counseling Services
Download full textBrown, Willis C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1956
One of the outstanding characteristics of American secondary education is the emphasis that it places upon individual and social needs. Most educators endorse student extraclass activities as an important way to obtain program flexibility, meet individual needs, and attain desirable education objectives. Among the purposes of this publication are…
Descriptors: Educational History, Extracurricular Activities, Secondary Education, High School Students
Studebaker, J. W.; Williams, C. S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
This bulletin has been prepared in response to many hundreds of requests for information about public affairs forums. It is impossible in such limited space to give a comprehensive description of the forum method of adult civic education or its application in various parts of the country. However, the authors have tried to include in the bulletin…
Descriptors: Civics, Program Administration, National Programs, Role of Education
US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
During the early part of the present century it became clear that in our efforts to emphasize general education we were neglecting vocational education. The agitation to correct that defect resulted in the passage of the Smith-Hughes law in 1917 and the development of an effective system of vocational education "of less than college…
Descriptors: Vocational High Schools, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education
Shelby, Thomas H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This report concerns itself with the growth and progress of "general" university extension for the biennial period 1922-1924. By general university extension is meant extension activities of universities and colleges in the fields not covered by agricultural and home economics extension under the Federal subsidy acts through the Federal land-grant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Federal Legislation
Hunt, DeWitt – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
It is believed that superintendents and principals, school board members, teachers, and employers and other lay citizens--in fact, all those persons who help to decide on public-school curriculum have need for a bulletin in which information is made available concerning work experience education programs. They should be informed about selected…
Descriptors: Educational History, High School Students, Junior High School Students, Student Employment
